From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Allison Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] async buffered diskio read for userspace apps Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 09:20:15 -0800 Message-ID: <20150119172015.GA13428@jeremy-HP> References: <20150115223157.GB25884@quack.suse.cz> <20150116165506.GA10856@samba2> <20150119071218.GA9747@jeremy-HP> <1421652849.2080.20.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20150119170429.GA13160@jeremy-HP> Reply-To: Jeremy Allison Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeremy Allison , Milosz Tanski , James Bottomley , Jens Axboe , Volker Lendecke , Jan Kara , Christoph Hellwig , linux-mm@kvack.org, "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Richard Sharpe Return-path: Received: from fn.samba.org ([216.83.154.106]:51285 "EHLO mail.samba.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751557AbbASRUL (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:20:11 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 09:18:14AM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Jeremy Allison wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:34 AM, James Bottomley > > wrote: > >> > >> That's one of these pointless licensing complexities that annoy > >> distributions so much ... they're both open source, so there's no real > >> problem except the licence incompatibility. The usual way out of it is > >> just to dual licence the incompatible component. > > > > Just one point here - we're not able to dual license > > Samba to go back to GPLv2 anything. There are too many > > contributors to this who have contributed under v3-or-later > > licensing in order for this to be possible for us. > > > > I'm hoping adding the 'or-later' clause to fio might > > be easier. > > As someone who has worked for companies that distribute Samba for > quite a while I cannot see us distributing fio. Rather, we would use > it as a performance testing tool. > > That being the case, the license differences are not a problem. > > Am I missing something here? No, it's only a problem for distributors, so it's much less of a problem than it might be. But it's still a problem I'd rather not have to think about :-). 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[2001:470:1f05:1a07::1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id kv14si1541587pab.28.2015.01.19.09.20.11 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 19 Jan 2015 09:20:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 09:20:15 -0800 From: Jeremy Allison Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] async buffered diskio read for userspace apps Message-ID: <20150119172015.GA13428@jeremy-HP> Reply-To: Jeremy Allison References: <20150115223157.GB25884@quack.suse.cz> <20150116165506.GA10856@samba2> <20150119071218.GA9747@jeremy-HP> <1421652849.2080.20.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20150119170429.GA13160@jeremy-HP> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Richard Sharpe Cc: Jeremy Allison , Milosz Tanski , James Bottomley , Jens Axboe , Volker Lendecke , Jan Kara , Christoph Hellwig , linux-mm@kvack.org, "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 09:18:14AM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Jeremy Allison wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:34 AM, James Bottomley > > wrote: > >> > >> That's one of these pointless licensing complexities that annoy > >> distributions so much ... they're both open source, so there's no real > >> problem except the licence incompatibility. The usual way out of it is > >> just to dual licence the incompatible component. > > > > Just one point here - we're not able to dual license > > Samba to go back to GPLv2 anything. There are too many > > contributors to this who have contributed under v3-or-later > > licensing in order for this to be possible for us. > > > > I'm hoping adding the 'or-later' clause to fio might > > be easier. > > As someone who has worked for companies that distribute Samba for > quite a while I cannot see us distributing fio. Rather, we would use > it as a performance testing tool. > > That being the case, the license differences are not a problem. > > Am I missing something here? No, it's only a problem for distributors, so it's much less of a problem than it might be. But it's still a problem I'd rather not have to think about :-). -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . 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